Online in the next The Elder Scrolls game is inevitable : Othor Games

» Sat May 12, 2012 12:34 pm

I feel like Skyrim will be the last stand alone single player only TES game. In an era with an increasing amount of multiplayer games, I feel like the next TES game will fall prey to this as well. No one thought the Dragon Age series would have multiplayer but now DA3 will feature it.
As bad as it may sound, I feel multiplayer wouldn't be so bad as everyone thinks.
Instead of these useless NPC characters that assist you you could have your online friend adventure along with you in a huge world.
Imagine being able to create your own shops in the game where you can set your own prices and all other players will be able to purchase from.
Co-op in dungeons and such would be incredibly fun.
Multiplayer doesn't mean the single player would have to suffer.

I like! I think its inevitable also. They are guna have to take a risk at some point.

» Sat May 12, 2012 8:04 am

TES combat is way to simplistic for multiplayer.

» Sat May 12, 2012 2:31 am

No. That would take too much time out of sp. And they would have to dumb it down even more.

» Sat May 12, 2012 2:00 am

As bad as it may sound, I feel multiplayer wouldn't be so bad as everyone thinks.
Instead of these useless NPC characters that assist you you could have your online friend adventure along with you in a huge world.
Imagine being able to create your own shops in the game where you can set your own prices and all other players will be able to purchase from.
Co-op in dungeons and such would be incredibly fun.

Sounds terrible.

» Sat May 12, 2012 4:26 pm

Instead of these useless NPC characters that assist you you could have your online friend adventure along with you in a huge world.
Imagine being able to create your own shops in the game where you can set your own prices and all other players will be able to purchase from.
Co-op in dungeons and such would be incredibly fun.

If this happened, not only would I save $60 (or more), but I'd also avoid another argument with the wife about purchasing a new video game.

» Sat May 12, 2012 4:24 am

Bethesda aren't retards, so they won't attempt to implement multiplayer.

If I'm wrong, I'll eat a pine cone on livestream as punishment when it's announced to have multiplayer.

I'll keep the pine cone eating in mind...

» Sat May 12, 2012 3:48 pm

LOL, no.

They've stated over the years NUMEROUS times that they do not ever plan on making TES a multiplayer game. It's just not how they see the series.

So no, TES:VI will NOT have Multiplayer. :goodjob:

Man im so with you....but the only problem is $$$$$ dictate not staying true to a promise that stumps revenues....

» Sat May 12, 2012 12:43 pm

they would lose almost all of their hardcoe fan base so, no there will be no multiplayer

» Sat May 12, 2012 1:22 pm

personaly i agree with a lot of people here that multiplayer would be a bad idea, but im up for trying new things. i will say that at the moment i wouldnt want to see it in the next instulment of the seires, id rather beth outsourced a SMALL arcade size game with a map slightly smaller than SI that can support a party of 4-6 people to a smaller studio to experiment with co-op where you dont play a hero but instead an average person with birthsigns and classes

» Sat May 12, 2012 12:11 pm

Multiplayer is truly helping to destroy singleplayer games. You have no idea how much it irritates me whenever my friends ask "does that game have multiplayer? No? That's gay!". I have this one friend who whined about Assassin's Creed not having multiplayer, and when it finally did, he played it for 1 match and said "this is pretty cool". And that was the last time he touched it. What was I, the one who has stuck with the Assassin's Creed games since the very first one was released, left with? A series that was becoming progressively worse because with each new title it focused more and more on multiplayer. Or what about the Bioshock games? The first one was so good, so compelling. The second one? Not so much. A soon to be example is Mass Effect 3. Seriously, all multiplayer does is detract time and resources away from the singleplayer game. And whenever a singleplayer game gets multiplayer, it may be good for a few games when you're bored, but it hardly ever is worth your time like the singleplayer game is. Please developers, leave multiplayer to the multiplayer games.

Uncharted 2 is the only game I know of that was given multiplayer and still managed to push out a better singleplayer game. If developers did it like this, I wouldn't care as much.

» Sat May 12, 2012 1:54 am

Yes, because the more you make your game like everyone else, the more successful you'll be. Wanting to differentiate yourself with a top notch single user experience is just crazy talk.

» Sat May 12, 2012 4:12 am

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3592

not sure if i can post this but but .... this is MP mod...well sortof

» Sat May 12, 2012 6:16 am

I'll never buy bethesda game if it will include multiplayer.

Multiplayer = less features in single player and simplified game

I just hope next fallout won't include multiplayer

I'll never buy a TES title until it has co-op. I will play them though.

» Sat May 12, 2012 5:59 am

What I'm interested from the pro-multiplayer / co-op proponents is this:

What is the driving factor in your reasoning as to why the ES series needs to have online functionality?

Is it to pad your XBox Gamerscore with TES Multiplayer Achievements? Is it to maintain your "gaming superiority" over your fellow gamers? Or is online gameplay your last outlet of a social life outside of texting your friends on your cell phones? Those are the only reasons that I can come up with offhand.

So help an aging gamer in trying to understand the push towards convincing me, and other longtime ES fans that’s against this idea, the real reason why you’re for online gameplay. Come up with a viable reason, (and educated argument) and I might understand what all the fuss is about.

» Sat May 12, 2012 7:52 am

Blasphemer!!!

» Sat May 12, 2012 6:21 am

They sold 3 million games in the first weekend. That's a lot of excitement over an SP game. This franchise doesn't need MP to survive.

» Sat May 12, 2012 1:53 pm

If there`s no multiplayer option then it`s obvious TES will ultimately end because somebody else will make a game like TES with more features including multiplayer and everybody will buy that instead.

» Sat May 12, 2012 10:42 am

If there`s no multiplayer option then it`s obvious TES will ultimately end because somebody else will make a game like TES with more features including multiplayer and everybody will buy that instead.

Please Two Worlds 1 and two tried to do this and failed on both accounts.

» Sat May 12, 2012 5:05 pm

you could have your online friend adventure along with you in a huge world.
Imagine being able to create your own shops in the game where you can set your own prices and all other players will be able to purchase from.
Co-op in dungeons and such would be incredibly fun.

How is this different from every single MMORPG in existence?

With player killing, player stealing, boss camping, inflated prices and ego?

» Sat May 12, 2012 7:21 am

The thought of multiplayer seems a little odd for this game..
But it all depends on how much it was implemented. If there is just a small portion, that is well done and makes the game better, I'm all for it.

But do i want to see no NPC's and purely other players running around everywhere? No, not really. Not at all. I could play WoW if i wanted that...(I really don't want it)

Anyway, in the end i think it just matters how well and how much they would put in.

» Sat May 12, 2012 12:00 pm

The mechanics of Elder Scrolls games are too complex for multiplayer to work.
You could probably find tons of ways to crash a server through the SetOwnership function alone. lol

» Sat May 12, 2012 8:01 am

It isn't necessary to discuss this at all when it is impossible. Why? Mods. For any two player to play together, they must have the same exact mods.

If you take away mods, it isn't TES anyway. The stumbling person coming towards you may look like the girlfriend you abandoned when the zombie horde took her, but you know you don't want to get in her pants.

» Sat May 12, 2012 1:39 pm

A agree to an extent. Turning TES into WoW would be a HUGE mistake. BUT, allowing for cooperative play P2P (i.e., no server-side game worlds that any can join) would work for those who would use it. Is it inevitable, though? Hardly. Sales of this SP only game more than tell what fans of TES are looking for.

Main problem with coop play is that it would require a lot of work to get right, the real easy way would be to read character info from one game and import the character to another. The helper would not be able to get quests, pick up quest items or even update quest stages by talking to npc.
Now it would be fun however people complain that the game is to easy and easy to exploit, now if an helper join you game and drop and legendary daeric sword

» Sat May 12, 2012 11:59 am

Multiplayer in a TES game would seem wrong imo, but I do agree that going into dungeons with your friends would be fun. I wouldn't mind seeing some "multiplayer arena/pvp" thing implemented though. All you need to do is ask some NPC outside a door that you want to fight in an arena, and if someone else is doing the same, bam, you duke it out with another dragonborn in some generic room. Probably be able to bet on yourself too, something to dump all that gold into. Not sure how death would work, though. It'll probably be have to be your on 1hp and kneel like your followers. Anyone else think this is a good idea?

» Sat May 12, 2012 11:30 am

Considering the single player version is barely stable, filled with game-breaking bugs/oversights, I hardly think the next step will be to introduce multiplayer gameplay.

Good thought though